front runner
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Paramount had initially been viewed as a front runner in the deal given the close ties its CEO, David Ellison, and his father, Oracle Corp.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
The current front runner, though, is 72-year-old Salvador Nasralla, who is running for president for the fourth time.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
With Kamala Harris out of the California governor’s race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
The other was the vigorous argument between abstraction and figuration as front runner of the avant-garde, then being hard-fought in the American art world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
Twice champion of the USSR, he’d won the 1958 Portorož Interzonal, becoming a front runner to play the incumbent titleholder, Mikhail Botvinnik, for the World Championship in 1960.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The company says it is applying the expertise and infrastructure it gained through its electric vehicle journey to become a front-runner in the global robot race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
After a brief turn as a front-runner in the model-development race with the release of Gemini 3.0 last November, Google has encountered a series of setbacks this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan was the front-runner after last month's first informal vote, in which the council's 15 members, including the five with veto power, pass judgment in secret on the candidates.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The 61-year-old did not elaborate on where the final race would be held if Qatar and Abu Dhabi have to be called off, but the strong front-runner is the Imola circuit in Italy.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
She hadn’t been a front-runner the whole time.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
